Steven Spielberg finally got the love he was seeking from the Hollywood establishment when “Schindler’s List” nabbed him Best Director and Best Film honors at the Oscars (despite being only the second-best film he made that year, after “Jurassic Park”). The Holocaust drama also established the director as a Serious Artist. He founded the Righteous Persons Foundation with his profits from “Schindler’s List,” saying that he wanted to educate Americans about the Holocaust.

“I could not accept any money from ‘Schindler’s List,’” Spielberg said, ” if it even made any money. It was blood money, and needed to be put back into the Jewish community. My parents didn’t keep kosher and we mainly observed all the holidays when my grandparents stayed with us,” the filmmaker explained at the time. “I knew I was missing a great deal of my natural heritage, and as I became conscious of it, I began racing to catch up.”

Ah, but Stevie lives in the Hollywood woke bubble, and intersectionality and progressive cant dictates that in the Hamas-Israel war, the Jews are the oppressors—they are white, see. Whites are always are oppressors.

A large chunk of the Righteous Persons Foundation’s funds now go to radical social justice groups including anti-Israel organizations like T’ruah, the group that organized traffic obstruction and a protest outside the Israeli consulate in Midtown Manhattan this year. The group’s mob of anti-Israel protesters carried signs accusing the Jewish State of “ethnic cleansing” “starving Gaza” and “genocide.”

Since 2021, Spielberg’s foundation has given $650,000 to T’ruah. CEO Jill Jacobs accused Israeli officials of “incitement to genocide;” Jacobs and T’ruah also accused Israel of “war crimes” when its exploding pagers attack assassinating Hezbollah leaders—-these are terrorists, after all—worked so well. The group denies that the October 7, 2023 surprise attack on Jewish civilians and children was provocation for the war on Hamas, which is the equivalent of a denial of Israel’s right to exist.

Writes an Israeli blogger: “Spielberg had gone from funding Holocaust survivors to funding those accusing Israel of a new Holocaust while enabling Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran to perpetrate a new one.” That seems fair. Evidently Spielberg, like the late Ron Reiner, manages to be a brilliant artist with a middle schooler’s sophistication regarding history, politics and ethics. And that’s OK. But he should stick to what he’s good at.